Are we smart enough to know how smart animals are?
Record details
- ISBN: 9780393246186 (hardcover) :
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Physical Description:
340 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
regular print
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2016.
- Copyright: ©2016.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-318) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Magic wells -- A tale of two schools -- Cognitive ripples -- Talk to me -- The measure of all things -- Social skills -- Time will tell -- Of mirrors and jars -- Evolutionary cognition. |
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Subject: | Animal intelligence Animal behavior Psychology, Comparative |
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- 11 of 11 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Prince Rupert Library.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Prince Rupert Library | 591.5 deWa (Text) | 33294001962158 | Adult Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Summary:
What separates your mind from that of an animal? Is it the ability to design tools; a sense of self; or the grasp of past and future? In recent decades these claims have eroded, or even been disproven outright, by a revolution in the study of animal cognition. Waal explores both the scope and the depth of animal intelligence, offering a firsthand account of how science has stood traditional behaviorism on its head by revealing how smart animals really are, and how we've underestimated their abilities for too long.